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Charcoal study, c. 1891–3, Art Institute of Chicago [28] The inscription below the idol reads "MERAHI METUA NO | TEHAMANA". [1] This means "Teha'amana has many parents", a reference to Teha'amana possessing foster parents as well as her natural parents in accordance with the faʼaʼamu [] Tahitian custom (Gauguin had to negotiate with both sets of parents when arranging the marriage). [29]
She became Brando's third wife in 1962. She is the mother of two of Brando's children, a son, Simon Teihotu (born in 1963) and a daughter, Tarita Cheyenne (1970–1995). They divorced in 1972. [3] Only months after Marlon Brando's death in 2004, Tarita published her memoirs titled Marlon, My Love and My Torment. [4]
Teriitaria II or Teri'itari'a II, later known as Pōmare Vahine and Ari'ipaea Vahine, baptized Taaroamaiturai (c. 1790 – 1858), became Queen consort of Tahiti when she married King Pōmare II and later, she ruled as Queen of Huahine and Maiao in the Society Islands.
Tetiʻaroa is administratively part of the commune of Arue, whose main part is in the northeastern part of Tahiti. The atoll is located 53 kilometres (33 mi) north of Tahiti. The atoll has a total surface area of 6 square kilometres (2 sq mi); approximately 585 hectares (1,450 acres) of sand divided by 12 motus (islets) with varying surface areas.
On November 11, 1808, English missionaries landed on the island of Huahine due to an insurrection against Pōmare II in Tahiti. The missionary John Davies recounted his stay on the island in his diary. Upon their arrival, they were greeted by Puru and his brother Ariipaea whose wife was Itia, former wife of King Pomare I of Tahiti. On November ...
My Brittany pictures are now rose-water because of Tahiti; Tahiti will become eau de Cologne because of the Marquesas. — Paul Gauguin, Letter LII to George Daniel de Monfreid, June 1901 In fact, his Marquesas work for the most part can only be distinguished from his Tahiti work by experts or by their dates, [ 178 ] paintings such as Two Women ...
Copy of Manet's Olympia, 1891.. Gauguin was an admirer of Édouard Manet's 1863 Olympia.He had seen it exhibited at the 1889 Exposition Universelle and commented in a review, "La Belle Olympia, who once caused such a scandal, is esconced there like the pretty woman she is, and draws not a few appreciative glances".
Gauguin first visited Tahiti in 1891 and, attracted by the beauty of Tahitian women, undertook a set of sculptural mask-like portraits on paper. They evoke both melancholy and death, and conjure the state of faaturuma (brooding or melancholy); imagery and moods later used in the Oviri ceramic. [ 7 ]